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Consult

**please note that consult duties (e.g. handling consults to the reading rooms, wet reads, incoming phone calls) extends over the lunch hour - so try to grab lunch early while people are around! or convince a co-fellow to hang out with you in the reading room during the hour ;) **

The consult fellow is the "General Manager" for the day. Responsibilities:

1.  Read Diagnostic Cases

2.  Handle consults coming to the reading room (please be proactive when a clinician enters the reading room, they usually don't know who to look for, and you can offer to help; try to go over it first, then you can always ask an attending to help look at the case with you if you need it)

3.  Protocoling (Including daytime add-ons - PLEASE PROTOCOL THROUGH THE WEEKEND, TO THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY AT LEAST - if you guys do this for each other, it will substantially decrease the number of pages you get on call)

4.      Handle all requests and incoming telephone calls including protocols

5.      Consenting patients for MRI (e.g. pregnancy, pacemaker) performed in Yawkey (except abdominal MRI).  If asked about a consent for an MSK MRI elsewhere in the MGH main campus, please refer the techs to the coverage scheme below.

6.  Cover lunch time consults

7. Cover the reading room during conferences - attend the conference remotely via Microsoft Teams

8.  If there is no Ultrasound/Education fellow, US coverage would default to Consult, but of course all persons in the reading room could help cover.

*Updated 06/2025